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Helping Strangers Participate through Instructions: Deconstructing the MP3 Experiment

Museum 2.0

For about half an hour, hundreds of people play together, silently, as directed by disembodied voices inside their headphones. The voice tells you what to do –stand up, shake hands, play Twister, make silly shapes—and you do it. Two and a half minutes in, the “omnipotent voice” Steve introduces himself.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

So I went to Nicaragua and spent a summer working on some farms, this was in 1982, Nicaragua was in the midst of a revolution in which they were giving land to the poor, and helping poor people organize co-operatives as a way of building a community framework for development and for sustainability.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Vital Voices :: @ VitalVoices. Vital Voices works with extraordinary women leaders accelerating peace and prosperity in their communities. The American Nicaraguan Foundation is a nonprofit that provides basic needs and tools for people to help stop poverty in Nicaragua. amfAR :: @ amfAR. charity: water :: @ CharityWater.